If it hops, wiggles, crawls, or gives your mom the chills you'll find it at The Reptile Zoo in Fountain Valley, California The Reptile Zoo provides the community with a unique educational ...

The heart is located at a distance approximately 25–33% of the distance from the tip of the snake's nose to its vent 1 or between the 59th and 66th ventral scute. The person carrying out the ...

This is bad news for the Tucson shovel-nosed snake, a highly adapted animal that swims through sandy desert soils and preys on everything from beetle larvae to scorpions. Its specialized nature and ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity today again petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the Tucson shovel-nosed snake as an endangered species under the Endangered ...

Chytrid fungus has reduced frog populations all around the world, while white nose syndrome has killed millions of bats in the US. Now researchers have evidence of what's termed snake fungal ...

He later saw the tip of the snake’s nose crack open as it emerged from the old skin while its eyes became rounded. The molting process was completed in about an hour, like turning a sock inside out.